20 16 On May 20th, everyone lived in peace and loved each other. However, Wang Dejia, ceo of Tongfudun, is sad, and there is another person who is more bitter and sad than Wang Dejia, Kevin Jiang, CEO of Tongfudun Technology!
First, I became friends because I like security technology.
Wang Dejia has many identities, such as doctor, engineer, founder, chairman and CEO of PayEgis Inc, and Kevin Jiang also has a good identity. He comes from Ali Department and has the identity background of group security department and technical director.
Both of them are from technical backgrounds, and both of them focus on safety technology. At a technical exchange meeting, Kevin Jiang met Wang Dejia, the maverick of Silicon Valley and CEO of Tongfudun.
At that time, Wang Dejia's team was studying the technology of "device fingerprinting"-"The principle is to collect the detailed information of non-sensitive device features in the end-user environment by embedding the front-end JS script or SDK in the website or mobile terminal, and establish a global device identification library through the device feature matching algorithm of the server, which is equivalent to assigning a unique device identification to each Internet user's access device.
Its main application areas are advertising marketing and big data anti-fraud.
Because Kevin Jiang, who was born in Ali, has always been interested in the sense of security, he gradually changed from a stranger to a friend in cooperation through communication. The two sides also signed a technical exchange contract.
At that time, Wang Dejia thought that "science and technology are beneficial to world progress", but he didn't think of plagiarism later.
Second, because technology has become the enemy.
Judging from the technical exchange contracts signed by them at that time, they mainly focused on "testing" and "development".
Due to the previous technical exchange, everyone has realized that Internet security will be the dessert of the future, and the fingerprint of the device is the mouth that devours the dessert. Shortly after the technical exchange, Jiang Tao left Ali in June, and then registered Tongdun Technology Company. One thing to say is that Tongfudun Company was established in May.
It's all about technology. Wang Dejia didn't expect this friend to set up the same company as himself. "Device fingerprinting technology was' reversed' and the source code and core technology were cracked."
During this period, some insiders broke the news that after cracking the technology, they threatened to exchange shares in Tongfudun with equipment fingerprint technology, but Wang did not agree. Then, the two men argued endlessly. Until mid-May this year, the biggest fight caused Tongdun Technology to fall into a plagiarism storm and won the honor of Sina Weibo's hot headlines in one fell swoop.
In addition to denying, denying and denying the media reports and the identification of Tongfudun Company, Tongdun Technology has to say countless important things. Tongdun Technology claims to be a one-stop risk control and anti-fraud solution, but ironically, it is helpless about its own fraud.
Therefore, two friends who love technology eventually became enemies. The latest killing was at 2 pm on May 19, and Tongdun Technology held a "Born in Xiangcheng" financing conference at Renaissance Jinmao Hotel. At the meeting, there was a crisis of pulling banners to resist plagiarism of the same shield technology.
Third, it will become a competitor in the security market in the future.
Although the financing conference of Tongdun Technology ended yesterday, it seems that Tongdun Technology, which was caught in the "plagiarism door", has only suffered from reputation damage, and the company's operation and even market competition have not stopped.
2065438+April 2006, Tongdun Technology completed the B+ round of financing of 32 million US dollars, equivalent to 200 million yuan; At the same time, it is also reported that Tongfudun has obtained financing of 65.438+0.05 billion yuan-it looks a bit funny, but it obviously reveals a message that the security market competition has really come.
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To prevent technology from being copied?
There is no way to stop Wang Dejia's pain. On the other hand, "the value geometry of technology" is a problem that must be discussed. In China, there have been more than one case of this kind of technology theft and plagiarism, and there are even remarks that "plagiarism" has become an Internet-style "innovation" in China.
So far, the current situation of Internet technology plagiarism in China:
1, technology and even programs are all virtual symbols, so it is difficult to apply for patent protection;
2. Lack of restraint and control of laws, regulations and standards;
3. The entrepreneurial atmosphere of shanzhai and plagiarism is too strong to stop. In addition to technical plagiarism, the function, interface and mode of products are often copied.
It is impossible to prevent technology and products from being copied. The only way to deal with plagiarism is to take the initiative to "change", walk in the forefront and let others pick up shoes for you. In addition, I also hope that laws and regulations can be introduced at the national level to crack down.
Therefore, the plagiarism of Tongdun Technology should not only be morally condemned, but should be punished more severely. What Tongfutong will do in the future is to exert its strength on "change" and at the same time bring "creativity" into full play.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Wang Dejia